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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Wilmot Proviso | proposed, but rejected, 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War |
| Free-Soil Party | antislavery political party of the mid 1800s |
| popular sovereignty | a policy stating that voters in a territory-not Congress-should decide whether or not to allow slavery there |
| secede | break away |
| Compromise of 1850 | political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law |
| Fugitive Slave Act | law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves |
| personal liberty laws | laws enacted by northern states to counteract the Fugitive Slave Act by granting rights to escaped slaves and free blacks |
| Underground Railroad | system that existed before the Civil War, in which black and white abolitionists helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas, especially Canada |
| Harriet Tubman | most courageous underground railroad conductor |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | published Uncle Tom's Cabin, a powerful condemnation of slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 law that divided the Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each territory and right to slavery |
| John Brown | ... |
| Bleeding Kansas | term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in kansas |
| Know-Nothings | members who responded "i know nothing" when asked about their nativist organization |
| Republican Party | political party established around an antislavery platform in 1854 |
| Dred Scott | ... |
| Roger B Taney | ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... |
| Stephen A Douglas | ... |
| Harpers Ferry | town in virginia where abolitionist john brown raided a federal arsenal |
| Jefferson Davis | convinced Congress to adopt resolutions restricting federal control over slavery in the territories |
| John C Breckinridge | ... |
| Confederate States of America | government of 11 southern states that seceded from the US and fought against the Union in the Civil War |
| Crittenden Compromise | 1861 proposed constitutional amendment that attempted to prevent seccession of the southern states by allowing slavery in all area south of the missouri compromise |
| Fort Sumter | federal fort located in charlestown, where the first shots of the civil war were fired |
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